Folds the four LLM runs into both papers now that the arc is fully characterised.
results-summary.md: new section 5 "The claims tested in real LLM weights" — the
Fisher-Muller generalist (7B merge 0.87 > best specialist 0.77), union-vs-fusion
(routing beats averaging where there is headroom), directed sex (breed + select),
and the unifying HEADROOM law that resolves the earlier saturation confound.
Updates design rule 2 ("merge, don't average — where there is headroom"), adds a
plain-language point 8, refreshes the validation counts (131 tests, real-LLM tier).
the-lamarckian-society-v5.md: softens the three "not a language model yet" claims
to acknowledge the prototype; adds the real-LLM confirmation after the
Fisher-Muller and directed-sex claims (with the headroom caveat as a sharpening,
not a weakening); adds an LLM bullet to section 13; reframes the closing gap to
"the operators, checked; the living society, next."
Tone held to the accessibility/honesty bar: prototype scope flagged (signs not
magnitudes), caveats presented as sharpening the claims, nothing over-celebrated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrite the-lamarckian-society-v4.md -> v5, making sexual reproduction the
central engine and lifting accessibility for a cross-disciplinary audience
(geneticists, ML engineers, neuroscientists) — every field's jargon glossed
inline, big picture kept legible, measured tone, honest about scope (the
evidence is from minimal models, not LLMs).
Core reframe (section 5): single-teacher distillation is asexual copying,
which collapses (Muller's ratchet = model collapse); the cure is to ground
every birth in reality and to reproduce SEXUALLY — recombining many
complementary parents so offspring can exceed any parent (Fisher-Muller).
Adds the honest limits (outbreeding depression on entangled skills) and the
distinctly-AI advantage (directed sex: choose mates, screen offspring,
unbounded parents). Turns the old "a companion paper will..." into "what we
built and found," folding in the demonstrated results (E1-E11, neural +
MNIST, the learning kernel) and the Riis positioning (concede collapse=drift
as prior art; claim the control-theory cure). Update CLAUDE.md / README
references; results-summary noted alongside.
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Rename layer1-summary.md -> results-summary.md and rewrite to cover the
whole body of work with the sexual-reproduction arc as the through-line:
Layer 1 (E1-E6, Wright-Fisher core + closed forms), Layer 1.5 (neural
existence proof: histogram bridge, RNN metric reframing, architecture-
generality, recombination in weights, real-MNIST external validity), the
learning kernel (neutral drift fails both neural models oppositely), the
sexual society (E7-E11: advantage of sex, Fisher-Muller super-parents,
outbreeding depression, directed sex, the dynamic-society vertical claim),
and the Riis positioning (concede collapse=drift; lead with the cure).
Technical + accessible halves; six design rules.
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Scaffold plus the Layer 1 analytical core and the first two experiments.
- knowledge/: truth, metrics, teachers (2.7.1 shared-switch construction),
step, lineage, experiment, config, seeding (imported as `knowledge`).
- Validation spine green: neutral decay (Pred 1), fixation (Pred 2), exact
mutation-drift equilibrium (Pred 3), union coverage (Pred 5). 68 tests pass.
- E1 reproduces tail-first collapse. E2 delivers the headline: a grounding
phase boundary g* << 1, with stationary H tracking the exact H_eq closed
form (g=0.005 -> 68% of truth diversity; g=0.05 -> 96%).
- Reproducibility: uv venv from a hash-pinned uv.lock is the source of truth;
every run writes results.parquet + resolved_config.yaml + manifest.json
(lib versions, git commit, sha256). Figures and manifests tracked; the
large regenerable parquet is gitignored.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
